New research "underscores the unfortunate truth that even the red- and blue-listed species in B.C. are not afforded effective legal protections by the province,” said UBC's Dr. Sarah Otto. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

For the first time in the wild, researchers have shown plant populations can evolve quickly enough to rebound from extreme drought. The study is a rare ray of hope in an often gloomy climate landscape. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

“The heatwave had widespread ecological effects, including an almost 400% increase in wildfire activity & negatively affecting more than three-quarters of the species studied,” said UBC zoologist Dr. Diane Srivastava. @zoology.ubc.ca @srivastavalab.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

A sweeping new study of the 2021 heat wave reveals major ecological losses—but also surprising species that thrived, offering crucial insight into how climate extremes reshape ecosystems. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social science.ubc.ca/news/2026-03...

New paper alert! The 2021 western North American #heatwave had widespread but variable impacts across species & ecosystems, with cascading effects on #productivity, #streamflow, & #wildfire. @baumlab.bsky.social @katiegwin.bsky.social @coleburton.bsky.social @srivastavalab.bsky.social bit.ly/3NnoEfA

Two of UBC’s premier research prizes were awarded to UBC Science faculty members today, with Dr. Curtis Suttle (@virosphere.bsky.social) receiving the Jacob Biely award, and Dr. Jess McIver earning UBC’s Charles A. McDowell award. @killamtrusts.bsky.social science.ubc.ca/news/2026-03...

Congratulations to Dr. Curtis Suttle, has been awarded the Jacob Biely Faculty Research Award. This award is regarded as UBC’s premier award for research across all disciplines. @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social oceans.ubc.ca/2026/03/10/d...

Looking for a meaningful holiday gift that goes beyond the usual presents? A Beaty Biodiversity Museum membership is a thoughtful option for families and science enthusiasts of all ages. Click the link to know more: beatymuseum.ubc.ca/visit/member... #BCmuseums #SciComm #UBCscience #UBCcampus#UBC#UBC

Check out our #MichaletzLab presentations at #AGU2025 this week! @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social @nicolebison.bsky.social @milossimovic.bsky.social

Recent study revealed plants are starting to lose more water under high temperatures. Known as "leaky plants," the abnormality is increasing because of #ClimateChange, potentially converting them from carbon sinks to carbon sources @seanmichaletz.bsky.social www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...

As @seanmichaletz.bsky.social puts it, "plants are basically the foundation of the entire biosphere." Leaky plants are problematic for everything. “All of the other living organisms on Earth...that's the energy source for all of the other living organisms. Other organisms eat that biomass for food.”

“Things are getting worse faster than we anticipated. "It appears we’re already close to the edge of some tipping points and we just haven’t found them yet.” @ubcoceans.bsky.social Dr. Chris Harley commented on B.C. ocean acidification via @viawesome.bsky.social buff.ly/JXS7fRx

Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

Come join us!!

“Bioluminescence is light made by living things,” Dr. Chris Harley explains. “The sparkly glow we sometimes see in the #ocean is caused by tiny, single-celled creatures in the #plankton called Noctiluca, which means ‘night light.'” curiocity.com/bioluminesce... @zoology.ubc.ca

Two covers for papers published on the same day www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122... & www.nature.com/natecolevol/.... Proud of the team, especially #MelaniePrentice & @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social with @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social, @eoas.ubc.ca, @ubcoceans.bsky.social, @hakai.org and @science.ubc.ca

Like woodpeckers? Or population genomics? Or three-species hybridization? Or selective sweeps? Then this is for you! The typeset version of "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" is published today: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Just in time for her #eseb2025 poster on Thursday, @squarehare.bsky.social 's paper on the Poecilia bifurca sex chromosomes was published today academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Now available online in Accepted Manuscript form: "Evidence for ancient selective sweeps followed by differentiation among three species of Sphyrapicus sapsuckers" In the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Congrats to lead author Libby Natola!

#UBC zoologist Dr. Judith Myers has spent five decades studying a native moth species and their boom-and-bust population cycles. She discusses her journey, findings from a recent study, and the caterpillars’ surprising resistance to climate change. science.ubc.ca/news/2025-08...

Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social

Celebrate #Biodiversity in style! Support the #UBC Biodiversity Research Centre with exclusive logo swag - where science meets style & conservation comes to life! Order t-shirts, mugs, & water bottles by 31 July! beatymuseum.ubc.ca/brc-merch @zoology.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social

🌼 Headed to #Botany2025? You'll definitely want to check out the brand-new Plant Science Bulletin before arriving! 🌼 It has a ton of conference info---along with some great articles & book reviews! Flipbook version: issuu.com/botanicalsoc... PDF version: botany.org/userdata/Iss... #plantscience

The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Marine ecologist Dr. Chris Harley supports shell re-introduction on BC's coast despite the risk of invasive species: "We could absolutely test whether my intuition on that is correct by ... swabbing things and sequencing.” @ubcoceans.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca www.timescolonist.com/islander/she...

Huge congrats to @milossimovic.bsky.social for receiving a Best Presentation Award at #ISEPEP10 for his talk on mechanisms linking fine root traits to climate change-induced yellow-cedar decline! #MichaletzLab @science.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @isepep10.bsky.social

Hey. @ubcoceans.bsky.social is hiring for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Deadline 12 Sept. To join us, apply here: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

🚨 New R package! 🚨 balancR provides tools for data balancing + robust scaling analysis, based on our recent Global Ecology & Biogeography paper: doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Co-developed with my PhD advisor @seanmichaletz.bsky.social Check it out 👉 michaletzlab.github.io/balancR/

“Previously, people thought perhaps males realized that if they were more orange, they were more sexy,” explains Dr. Judith Mank of @zoology.ubc.ca. www.karmactive.com/male-guppies...

🧬 Launching a project using lipidomics & transcriptomics to see if zooplankton quality is changing with climate. These tools reveal shifts in energy storage & stress responses—key to managing marine ecosystems @genomebc.bsky.social @psfca.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social #DFO

Nominate an outstanding early-career researcher! The Stevenson Lectureship Award honours creativity and impact in fisheries and aquatic sciences. The recipient will present a plenary lecture and receive travel support. Deadline: Sept 19, 2025. Details ➡️ buff.ly/uVBjCEr @scas-scsa.bsky.social

Research on plant response to rising temperatures is often studied at small scales, then extrapolated across whole ecosystems. But that doesn't always translate into an accurate prediction at a larger scale. @ubcbotany.bsky.social @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social science.ubc.ca/news/2025-06...

#UBCForestry's Elizabeth Wolkovich highlights the importance of the summer solstice in shaping plant growth strategies. The research shows that although warmer temperatures result in longer growing seasons, many species remain constrained by the early seasonal cues they rely on🌲 shorturl.at/WKAO2

check out this @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social interview with #UBCO and @biodivpathways.bsky.social wildlife scientist @claytontlamb.bsky.social #RoadEcology #WiRELab www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Plants are facing the #heat – from molecules to the biosphere –but predicting their responses isn’t easy. New @science.org paper w/ @mekevans.bsky.social & Jia Hu shows how plant responses to #warming can shift or reverse across #scales, and how new research can improve prediction. shorturl.at/mQB2c

Ecologists are obsessed with linking process and pattern, but quantifying the core processes of community assembly (and their interactions) in a natural setting is extremely hard. But we've done it! Using a fun new method. Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳

Tree plumbing is hard. Xylem “pipes” must move water & not collapse. New study in #PlantCell&Environment (shorturl.at/CPF9s) led by #MichaletzLab PhD candidate @milossimovic.bsky.social shows how #mechanics (not just #hydraulics) shape xylem traits from leaves to roots, across 5 spp & 600k conduits.

B.C.’s economic strategy talks about reconciliation and climate adaptation as core tenets, and these must remain through turbulent times, says evolutionary biologist Dr. Sally Otto, @zoology.ubc.ca. yhoo.it/3SFCB7Q

We would like to play around with ecosystem modelling, so we designed a Summer School for that! With training on Madingley Models, high performance computing, git and code optimization, we'll be at @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social on August 18-22. Registrations open until June 15: bit.ly/2025-SS-BM 🧪 🌐

New paper out in PCE, coauthored with my PhD advisor @seanmichaletz.bsky.social - check it out!

Hope to see you at the 2025 Botany Symposium! Program at shorturl.at/2usQ5 @ubcbotany.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @forestry.ubc.ca

Bring bacteria back🦠 The influence of microbial manipulation on sugar kelp development Jasmine Talevi covers work from Jungsoo Park & team (@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social) highlighting the fundamental role microbiomes play across biological systems #preLight⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a...

Hope to see you at the 2025 Botany Symposium! Program at shorturl.at/2usQ5 @ubcbotany.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @forestry.ubc.ca

You are invited to attend our Science Education Open House on April 10 at 9:30 am as we celebrate teaching and learning projects across the Faculty of Science. Location: Earth Sciences Building, 1st floor lobby & atrium. Register now: bit.ly/3QR4qZQ

🚨 Calling all science enthusiasts! The EOAS Poster Corral is here! 🏆 📅 Undergraduates: This week 📅 Graduate students: Next week Explore cutting-edge research, vote for your favourites, and celebrate the amazing work of our students. See you there!